Thursday, February 20, 2014

The War On Men: 10 Ways Masculinity is Under Attack

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And why the elite – not women – are to blamePaul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 19, 2014

Men are facing a full frontal assault on their rights,
health and culture like never before. The war on masculinity has never
been so brutal – but it’s not a war being waged by women. The attack is
coming directly from the top, as the establishment desperately attempts
to emasculate and disempower men in order to force women to be more
dependent on the state, thereby enabling more power to be centralized
and aiding the growth of big government.

Here are ten ways in which the state has declared war on men and masculinity;

1) Falling Fertility

Sperm counts amongst men have significantly decreased over
the last half century and particularly over the last 25 years. In some
European countries, sperm counts have dropped by as much as a third
since 1989. Part of the fall can be explained by exposure to pesticides,
endocrine-disrupting chemicals like Bisphenol A, and the many other
artificial horrors that increasingly pervade our water and food supply.
Many have made the connection between falling sperm counts and the open
calls by innumerable elitists to drastically reduce world population by as much as 95%. Research shows that
underpopulation, not overpopulation, will be the major demographic
crisis of the 21st century as a result of humans failing to achieve the
replacement rate of 2.1 children.

2) Chemical Warfare “Feminizing” Boys

Exposure to phthalates, which are found in many
plastics, is “feminizing” boys by blocking normal male testosterone and
causing genital abnormalities, according to scientists. “Boys exposed to
high levels of these in the womb were less likely than other boys to
play with cars, trains and guns or engage in “rougher” games like
playfighting,” according to a BBC News report.
According to Elizabeth Salter-Green, director of the chemicals campaign
group CHEM Trust, phthalates are a true “gender-bender” because they
lead to a reduction in “male behavior”.

3) Degradation of Positive Masculine Role Models

Whereas 50 years ago, advertising, Hollywood and
television was filled with examples of positive masculine role models
that young men could look up to, today’s entertainment industry
routinely portrays men as clueless and bumbling oafs at best (think
Homer Simpson, Everybody Loves Raymond, Married With Children) or at
worst as aggressive sexual predators. Since advertising is primarily
aimed at women, men in commercials are also now routinely depicted as
either being emasculated losers or stupefied morons. Young men consuming
this content grow up thinking that it is acceptable and even encouraged
to aspire to these character traits. In doing so, they are robbed of
their natural masculinity and find it extremely difficult to attract
well-rounded women, who are rightly disgusted by such behavior. The
entertainment industry is largely controlled by men, again underscoring
the fact that this assault is a top down trend that has little or
nothing to do with the gender war.

4) Metrosexual Malaise

Second wave feminism was a creation of the establishment itself and
at its core has little whatsoever to do with genuine concern about
women’s rights. Radical feminism deliberately confuses gender roles and
makes young men apprehensive about exercising their masculinity for fear
of being seen as overbearing or aggressive towards women. This has
contributed to an entire generation of “metrosexual” men who are
promiscuous, unwilling to commit to a relationship and unable to fulfil a
women’s basic needs for healthy companionship, destabilizing society
and making it more difficult for women to find suitable long term
partners with whom to have children.

5) Cultural Marxism

Establishment-controlled second wave feminism also
advances the doctrine of cultural marxism, which claims that oppression
emerges from patriarchal society and culture, and not the state.
Governments love cultural marxism because it absolves them of blame. The
true source of all oppression has always been the state, but by blaming
it on men or western culture in general (which is primarily shaped by
men), the state hides its own responsibility.

6) The ‘Men are Paid More’ Myth

The establishment promulgates the myth that men are paid
more than women because of discrimination, feeding into feminist
doctrines about patriarchal systems oppressing women in the workplace.
In reality, the “wage gap” of around 19 per cent between the two sexes
in the United States is explained by a number of reasons that
have nothing to do with discrimination, including the fact that men
work more hours and men seek less desirable jobs that pay higher. As a
result, men account for 93% of workplace deaths despite
being only 54% of the workforce. 94% of workplace suicides every year
are also men. The establishment buries these shockingly high male
workplace fatality figures because they completely contradict the myth
that the jobs market discriminates against women.

7) The “Privilege” Trap

Statists, collectivists and their mouthpieces in the
media and the establishment claim that western men (in particular white
men) cannot express a valid opinion on any issue related in any way to a
“minority” (such as feminism or immigration) because they have
“privilege”. The “privilege” talking point is a stunt through which
liberals and feminists attempt to shut down free speech. In essence they
are asserting the ludicrous notion that a man’s viewpoint has no value
because of the color of his skin, his gender or his country of origin.
This is an inherently racist position, yet it is routinely used by
leftists to shout down their ideological adversaries and silence male
voices.

8) The Legal System Discriminates Against Men

In both divorce and child custody proceedings, it is
widely acknowledged that courts heavily favor women and discriminate
against men. Men are routinely hit with onerous alimony payments even if women are capable of working and earning a good paycheck. Men only receive custody of their children in around 10 per cent of divorce cases in
the United States. The ironic thing about this system is that it has
primarily been instituted by other men, emphasizing again how the war on
men is being waged not by women, but by the primarily male-dominated
establishment itself.

9) Masculinity as a Dirty Word

Dissident feminist Camille Paglia recently wrote
a Wall Street Journal piece in which she warned, “What you’re seeing is
how a civilization commits suicide.” Paglia was referring to how the
emancipation of masculine virtues by the establishment threatens to
create massive destabilization in society due to less and less men being
able to fill traditionally “masculine” roles in the jobs market. Paglia
points to schools cutting recess, the effort to deny the biological
distinctions between men and women, and the left’s characterization of
controversial opinions as “hate speech” as examples of how masculinity
is being deliberately eroded. “Masculinity is just becoming something
that is imitated from the movies. There’s nothing left. There’s no room
for anything manly right now,” warns Paglia, adding that young men have,
“no models of manhood.”

10) Domestic Abuse Against Men

Whereas women have numerous safety nets to turn to if
they become victims of domestic abuse, men have virtually none, despite
the fact that domestic abuse against men is a huge and growing problem.
In the UK for example,
44 per cent of domestic abuse victims are male, while more married men
suffer abuse at the hands of their spouse than married women. While
domestic abuse against women is constantly highlighted by the mass
media, domestic abuse against men is a complete non-issue.

Conclusion

A totalitarian society can only survive if the male
population has been gelded, emasculated and disenfranchised. With this
natural bulwark against tyranny removed, the elite can centralize power
and pursue collectivist tyranny unopposed. This is why men and
masculinity are under assault on every level – and why both men and
women should join forces to fight back against this common enemy.